Biology Is Technology : The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life / Robert H. Carlson.
Carlson, Robert H., author.
2010
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Title
Biology Is Technology : The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life / Robert H. Carlson.
Author
Carlson, Robert H., author.
ISBN
9780674053625
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674053625
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (288 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674053625 doi
Alternate Call Number
WF 9710
Summary
In Biology Is Technology, author Robert Carlson offers a uniquely informed perspective on the endeavors that contribute to current progress in the science of biological systems and the technology used to manipulate them.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. What Is Biology?
2. Building with Biological Parts
3. Learning to Fly (or Yeast, Geese, and 747s)
4. The Second Coming of Synthetic Biology
5. A Future History of Biological Engineering
6. The Pace of Change in Biological Technologies
7. The International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition
8. Reprogramming Cells and Building Genomes
9. The Promise and Peril of Biological Technologies
10. The Sources of Innovation and the Effects of Existing and Proposed Regulations
11. Laying the Foundations for a Bioeconomy
12. Of Straitjackets and Springboards for Innovation
13. Open-Source Biology, or Open Biology?
14. What Makes a Revolution?
Afterword
Notes
Index

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